1st Edition
Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory
By Dimitri Ginev
Copyright 2018
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality, and human agency; or by following a strategy that promotes the quest for completely... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: THE IRREDUCIBILITY THESIS
- Holism without Essentialism
- Social Practices and the Human Body
- The "Hand" and the Readiness-to-hand
Chapter Two: THE FACTICITY OF PRACTICES
- Cultural Forms of Life Disclosed and Articulated Within Interrelated Practices
- Facticity, Ethnomethodology, and Radical Reflexivity
Chapter Three: CONSTRUCTING PRACTICE THEORY THROUGH DOUBLE
HERMENEUTICS
- Defending Irreducibility via Double Hermeneutics
- Empirical Ontologies and the Double Hermeneutics
- The Frames of Meaning and the Fusion of Horizons
- The Integral Circle of Interpretation
Chapter Four: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVITY OF SOCIAL PRACTICES
- Exemplifying Trans-subjectivity
- Chronotopes of Configured Practices
- Entangled Agency with Configured Practices
- The Interplay of Practices and Possibilities
Chapter Five: THE DIALOGICAL SELF AS THROWN PROJECTION IN
PRACTICES
- The Dialogical Proliferation of I-positions
- Narrating the Self and Positioning
- I-Positions and Existential Possibilities
- Integrity through Re-positioning
Epilogue
Index
Biography
Dimitri Ginev is Professor for Continental Philosophy and Hermeneutic Philosophy of Culture at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria
